Women at the time of the Bible /

Vamosh, Miriam Feinberg,

Women at the time of the Bible / [print] Miriam Feinberg Vamosh. - Nashville, TN : Abingdon Press, (c)2008, (c)2007. - 103 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm

Includes bibliographies and index.

Include: -- The Household: Home, Hearth and Beyond -- It's Never Done: Women's Work -- Mysterious Bonds: Romance and Love -- Tying the Knot: Betrothals and Weddings -- Cleaving to Each Other: Marriage -- Changes of Status: Divorce and Widowhood -- Under Caring Wings: Motherhood -- The Life of the Spirit: Women at Worship -- A Joyful Noise: Music and Dance -- Ladies who Lament: Professional Mourners -- From Basic to Beaded: What Women Wore -- Becoming More Becoming: Adornments -- A Teacher for Life: Women and Learning -- Standing Out, Speaking Out: Women's Leadership -- Women on the Margins: Prostitutes, mediums, seductresses, loners -- 100 Named Women of the Bible, Book by Book.



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Women--History.--Palestine
Women--Social life and customs.--Palestine
Women--Social conditions.--Palestine
Jews--Social life and customs--To 70 A.D.
Women in the Bible.


Palestine--Social life and customs--To 70 A.D.
Palestine--M�urs et coutumes--Jusqu'a 70.


History.

DS112.V216.W664 2008